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Animal Husbandry Specialist

Category: Agro (Plant/Animal/Fisheries)

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Job Description

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Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical inputs in the curriculum on Livestock Field Schools for all five landscapes.
• Coordinate development of Livestock Field Schools monitoring and impact indicator formats, design Livestock Field School protocols, tools, and methods.
• Provide scientific/technical and training process inputs on livestock management to households, to raise awareness on maintaining quality indigenous livestock and local carrying capacities, and for implementing improved nutrition and fodder management strategy, and for the training Prani Mitra/ Pashu Sakhis to assist farmers/ herders in all the five project landscapes.
• Work with SPMU and GLIU in developing monitoring protocols and tools for data collection and assist in ensuring complete documentation and report writing on all the activities relating to livestock management for all five project landscapes.
• Lead overall coordination with one project implementing state.

Other Educational Qualification

• Master’s degree in veterinary sciences, animal sciences or equivalent.
• 3 years of relevant experience in animal production and animal health, particularly in the piggery, poultry and small ruminants’ sector
• Working knowledge (level C) of English, working proficiency in Hindi is desirable.
• Indian National

Skills

• Relevant experience of working in Animal production systems.
• Experience of working with government agencies and in development projects.
• Experience working with or in international non-governmental and donor organizations (UN agencies, World Bank, IFAD, Asian Development Bank, etc.) with implementation of participatory projects
• Experience in understanding the impact of climate change to livestock development.

Salary

Negotiable

Posted By

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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